Former prep stars: Anundsen garners collegiate assistant honor

• Sara Anundsen, a former tennis player at Columbine and current assistant women’s tennis coach at the University of North Carolina, was named Assistant Coach of the Year for the Carolina region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The Tar Heels lost in the national semifinals earlier this week. Anundsen won the 2007 NCAA doubles championship while attending North Carolina.

• Taylor Kemp, a 2009 graduate of Mountain Vista, started and played 21 games for Maryland, which finished the season ranked fifth nationally. Kemp, a defender, was named to three all-freshman/all-rookie teams, including the ACC, Soccer America and TopDrawerSoccer.com. He was also named to the ACC’s all-academic team.

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.